A Long Hard Ride
Benjy agrees to carpool to a conference with his hot coworker, Sirius Black. Sirius shows up in leather pants on his motorcycle, and Benjy is not prepared.
Prompt: Road-trip + “I’d rather die.”
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Benjy took a deep breath and studied himself in the mirror of his bathroom. He only had a moment to gather himself, and he needed to find some way to do it.
His short cropped blond hair was combed into a perfectly acceptable style, and the sharp blue of his eyes were piercing in the mirror. His cheeks were slightly flushed, but that probably wasn't really noticeable. His bottom lip was a bit darker than normal and slightly chapped at this point thanks to a nervous habit of biting his lip.
Overall, Benjy thought he looked fine. Good enough, really. Well, he wasn't, you know, bad looking, if he didn't say so himself. Which he did, and why shouldn't he? He was the kind of boy that mother's hoped their sons would bring home. Bright eyed, smart, sweet–
Completely out of his league.
Which was fine. This was not a date. In fact, Benjy knew he should really stop thinking of it in terms of something remotely date-like, because it wasn't. It was a work trip. To a conference. On something boring that he couldn't even remember the name of.
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